VaVaVoom Vegan & Organic Recipes
All Vegan & Organic Dust & Grass Recipes!
Mandarin & Mixed Berry Smoothie
You need (for 2 glasses):
â—ŠÂ Â 3 small mandarins
â—ŠÂ Â 1 cup of mixed berries
â—ŠÂ Â 1 tsp of Mesquite (optional, but very healthy and slightly sweetening)
â—ŠÂ Â 1 can of coconut water (350ml)
â—ŠÂ Â ice cubes – optional
Way to go:
– put everything in your blender and blend
If a little too tart, add a bit of your preferred natural sweetener.
Serve and drink straight away.
Lemon ‘Butter Cake’
This is based on a Dutch recipe (‘Boterkoek’), something I crave once in a while. The original cake is made with real butter, and although this version isn’t as rich, it still is very nice.
You need:
°   200gr of white flour (I use spelt, as always)
°   175gr of plant based butter
°   125gr organic brown sugar
°   a pinch of salt
°   1 heaped tsp of vanilla paste (or essence, but organic, for usually ‘natural’ vanilla comes from a beaver’s castor sacs, near his bum, and is called ‘castoreum’ but not labelled like that – just in case you didn’t know 😉 )
°   zest of 1.5 lemons
°   1 tbsp non dairy milk
You do:
– preheat oven to 200C
– mix everything and put in slightly oiled baking tray. I used a muffin tray to make small cakes.
– bake for max. 20min, check at 15min, they may be fine then
Cool for about 15 minutes, pop the cake(s) out and transfer to a rack to further cool down. Keep in a container.
Raw Lime Cream
This cream is great as dressing, dip and addition to soups.
Ingredients:
♦   1/2 cup of Cashew Cream
♦  Juice of half a lime
♦  Zest of half a lime
♦  pepper
♦  a small pinch of Himalayan rock salt
Stir all ingredients together, add salt to taste.
Potato, Cucumber & Sausage Salad
A lovely meal I decided to make when I didn’t have the energy to cook… funny that I ended up cooking 😉 But, it is a simple meal that doesn’t require a lot of work or thinking.
You need (for 1 portion):
♣   2 medium potatoes
♣    1 favorite vegan sausage
♣   about 3 centimeters of cucumber (or less potato and more cucumber, why not)
♣    a couple of olives
♣    fresh dill, a few sprigs
♣   1/4 small-medium onion
♣    toasted sesame oil to cook in
♣   a dash of olive oil
♣   a dash of truffle oil (or if you use the concentrated oil, less)
♣   salt & pepper to taste
You do:
– cube the potatoes and boil them with salt
– slice the sausage any way you like and fry the pieces in the sesame oil
– when potato cubes are done, drain and let cool down a bit (unless you want a warm salad)
– cut up onion and cucumber, chop the dill and olives
– sprinkle a little of olive oil on the potatoes, same for the truffle oil, toss to coat (taste and add more truffle oil if you like)
– then add everything to the potato, mix and serve. Or arrange sausage on the side 🙂
That’s all!
Cabbage, Rocket & Apple Wrap w Pine Nuts & Baba Ghanoush
OK, I loooove wraps. They make a great meal whatever the time of the day!
The parts:
â—ŠÂ Â Â a wrap
â—ŠÂ Â Â some rocket (arugula)
â—ŠÂ Â Â thinly sliced red cabbage
â—ŠÂ Â Â sliced apple
â—ŠÂ Â Â pine nuts (toasted or not)
â—ŠÂ Â Â baba ghanoush
â—ŠÂ Â Â chives
â—ŠÂ Â Â salt & pepper
â—ŠÂ Â Â olive oil, optional
Way to go:
– cut up cabbage
– put some baba ghanoush on your wrap
– arrange the veggies and pine nuts on top
– drizzle with olive oil, if you want, sprinkle with salt & pepper
– fold, and eat!
Cucumber Canapé’s w Dill & Asafoetida Dip
These are lovely, tasteful canapés. Bit different, as asafoetida is not very common, or at least not used too often in the western kitchen.
♦  3/4 cup Cashew Cream
♦  2 tsp dried dill
♦  1.5 tsp asafoetida
♦  2 small cloves of garlic, minced
♦  salt to taste
♦  Spring onion, finely sliced
♦  Sweet paprika powder (do not omit!)
♦  Cucumber slices
You do (for the dip):
– mix everything but the salt (and the cucumber, of course)
– add salt to taste
Top cucumber slices with dip, spring onion and sweet paprika powder.
If you want this as a dressing, then dilute with a non dairy milk.
Croutons w Mustard Cream & Asparagus
Mmmm… great snack, nibble, lunch, anything!
You need per piece (making 4-6 pieces out of one slice of bread):
♦  sliced bread, cut in 4 or 6 pieces
♦  about a heaped teaspoon of Cashew Cream
♦  1/4 tsp of mustard (any kind you fancy most)
♦  1/2 asparagus
♦  some oil
♦  smoked paprika powder
Way to go:
– heat the oil in a skillet and fry the bread on both sides
– mix the Cashew Cream with the mustard, and cut the asparagus in pieces
– when the bread has become crouton, put a heaped teaspoon of the Mustard Cream on top, and then the asparagus and smoked paprika powder.
Serve straight away.